Explanatory Notes

• A version Lydgate, Dance of Death (Selden)
• B version Lydgate, Dance of Death (Lansdowne)
• CT Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, ed. Benson
• D Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 322 (SC 21896)
• DMF Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500)
• DOST Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
• FP Lydgate, Fall of Princes, ed. Bergen
• Gray “Two Songs of Death,” ed. Gray
• Hassell Hassell, Middle French Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases
• MED Middle English Dictionary
• ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• OED Oxford English Dictionary
• Whiting Whiting, Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases

Textual Notes

• A1 London, British Library Additional 37049 fols. 31v–32r (basis for “Dawnce of Makabre”)
• A2 London, British Library Additional 15225, fols. 15r–16r (basis for “Shaking of the Sheets”)
• BD Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 1.1.6 (Bannatyne MS Draft), pp. 43r–44r
• BM Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 1.1.6 (Bannatyne MS Main), fols. 56r–57r (basis for “Ressoning betuix Death and Man”)
• Brown Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century, ed. Brown, p. 241
• Brunner “Mittelenglische Todesgedichte,” ed. Brunner, pp. 27–28, 30
• C Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Ff.5.45, fols. 13r–14r
• Cov Coventry, Coventry Archives Acc. 325/1, fols. 70rb–74vb
• Cutler Cutler, John L. “A Middle English Acrostic,” p. 88
• D Oxford, Bodleian Library Douce 322 (SC 21896), fols. 19vb–20ra (basis for “Death’s Warning to the World”)
• Doty “An Edition of British Museum MS Additional 37049: a Religious Miscellany,” ed. Doty, pp. 206–11
• Dufour La dance macabre peinte sous les charniers des Saints Innocents de Paris, ed. Dufour
• F Bibliothèque nationale de France fonds français 14989, fols. 1r–12v (basis for French Danse macabre)
• Fein The Danse Macabre Printed by Guyot Marchant, ed. Fein
• Furnivall “Of Þre Messagers of Deeth,” ed. Furnivall, 2:443–48
• H1 London, British Library Harley 1706, fols. 19v–20r
• H2 London, British Library, Harley 116, fols. 128r–v (basis for “A Mirror for Young Ladies at their Toilet”)
• Horstmann “Nachträge zu den Legenden 5: The Messengers of Death,” ed. Horstmann, pp. on 432–34
• L British Library MS Lansdowne 669, fols. 41v–50v (basis for Lydgate, Dance of Death, B version)
• Lincy “La danse macabre reproduite textuellement d’apres l’unique exemplaire connu de l’édition princeps de Guyot Marchant,” ed. Le Roux de Lincy, pp. 291–317
• N New Haven, Beinecke Library MS 493, fols. 51v–60v
• P Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library, Pepys Ballads 2.62
• R Oxford, Bodleian Library 4o Rawl. 566 (203)
• RV Rome, Venerable English College (AVCAU) MS 1405, fols. 111r–21r
• S Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Selden Supra 53, fols. 148r–58v (basis for Lydgate, Dance of Death, A version)
• Saugnieux “La danse macabre française de Guyot Marchant (1486),” ed. Saugnieux, pp. 143–64
• Silverstein “Cest le Myrroure pur les Iofenes Dames,” ed. Silverstein, pp. 121–22
• Sim London, British Library Addit. 22283 [Simeon MS], fols. 88vb–89ra
• V Oxford, Bodleian Library Eng. poet. a.1 (SC 3938) [Vernon MS], fols. 297vc–98rb (basis for “Three Messengers of Death”)
• Warren The Dance of Death, ed. Warren and White
• W1 Oxford, Bodleian Library Wood 401 (60) (Wing H2013A)
• W2 Oxford, Bodleian Library Wood 402 (48) (Wing H2013B).